Monday, March 19, 2012

Remember how I slightly hinted at a little project I was working on with

my lovely friend Penny of sew take a hike? Well, here is a reveal! The kind folks
at Sew, Mama, Sew contacted us a few weeks ago to ask if we'd be
up for an interview about our Ringo Pie bee and for sharing paper-piecing
tutorials on their blog! The interview is posted there today and our tutorials
will be up on their blog tomorrow and Tuesday!

It was so fun working with Penny (as always!) We had this idea of

coming up with one pattern each and we both make a mini flimsy using

both our patterns. Penny made this adorable sprout pattern and I made the juice pattern.

We both decided to go with making several pairs

of sprout and juice blocks and use stamps to label them, but we wouldn't

share each other's work until Sunday evening when our flimsy is complete.

This way, we were able to put our own spins on the blocks.

As usual, I was way too slow making progress. Penny was done with hers

Your juice blocks are so pretty Ayumi! As usual you are far too modest!!Funny thing before I saw Penny's block I was sketching juice cartons for your month in Ringo Pie. I'll go another route after seeing these my sketch looks rather lame in comparison ;)

I love it Ayumi! You can totally send it to me ;) I am glad you included the purple because one of our favorite things around here is to make and drink "purple monsters" which are juiced wild blueberries and spinach!!! It's purple and pretty! You've dona a fantastic job. Can you hang it in your kitchen?

I love your new project!! It is sooooo incredibly cute =D I can't wait for the tutorials! I keep saying that I am going to try paper piecing and never do =P I loved the interview with you and Penny. You are both so very talented!!!!

I love, love, love your blocks Ayumi!!! I like Kerry's idea of a pillow!!!! It would be so cute as a pillow with striped piping around it! That's funny about the purple, I thought of using purple too, and now I wish I had. It adds such a nice range to the juices/sprouts!!

This is so cute! I would mount it on a canvass and hang it as the WONDERFUL piece of art it is. Putting it onto a canvass would help it really pop on the wall. Still haven't started paper piecing :-(, but I feel I am getting inspired again! Lovely work, and I'm looking forward to the tutorial.

Thanks for stopping by my blog! My name is Ayumi. I love sharing my crafty journal and other little anecdotes in my life here. I am a mother to a baby girl and a wife to my husband from Seattle. We live in a small apartment in Tokyo. I hope you enjoy being here :) Welcome♪